Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] if it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , technical description is only appropriate if it illustrates a point in your argument , as can be seen from problems in the following excerpt : The sonnet structure is appropriate to the subject . |
| 2 | Insurance is only valuable if it serves a purpose . |
| 3 | The benefit of the contract is only assignable if it makes no difference to the person on whom the obligation lies as to whether the obligation is discharged to the vendor or to the purchaser . |
| 4 | scientists found that the linear chain is more stable if it undergoes a Peierls ( pronounced piles ) distortion ; each electron interacts with only one of its neighbours to form a structure of alternating short ( double ) and long ( single ) carbon-carbon bonds . |
| 5 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 6 | It seems probable , then , that a belief can only be genuinely infallible if it has no content at all . |
| 7 | Simple material can be unmistakably right if it has an appropriate urge and impulse . |
| 8 | If you are fortunate enough to own , or to find , an incunabulum or book printed before 1500 , do not be too alarmed if it has no title , since many books of the period had none , at least in the sense that we understand , the publisher/printer contenting himself with a curt statement of the title and author 's name , known as a ‘ label title ’ , or else a small introductory paragraph ( sometimes using a different coloured ink ) known as the ‘ incipit ’ , from the Latin ‘ it begins ’ . |
| 9 | An oval-shaped wreath can look very effective if it follows the lines of its oval frame , and you can make a similar style of garland in a heart-shaped design , whether small ( see p. 85 ) or much bigger and bolder and enclosed in a square frame . |
| 10 | But there was no doubt that the décor was too bare , too cool if it allowed a few interesting and stylized images ( the sea , the intervention of the gods ) to stiffen the characters on stage . |